jyoun...@kc.rr.com wrote:
> If I have a string like so:
>
> a = '\\u03B1'
>
> and I want to make it display a Greek alpha character, is there a way to
> convert it to unicode ('\u03B1')? I tried concatenating it like this:
>
> '\u' + '03B1'
>
> but that didn't work. I'm working in Python 3.0 and was curious if this
> could be done.
How about
>>> "\\u03b1".encode("ascii").decode("unicode-escape")
'α'
Peter
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